On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:15:19 -0600 Akkana Peck <akkana@shallowsky.com> wrote: ...
The best place to get the latest youtube-dl is its project website: https://yt-dl.org/
I use the version from the debian package archives and that works well for me. But you need to be running testing or set up apt preferences so you can pull the package out of testing and/or unstable. As Akkana pointed out, the version in stable is typically broken. Unless you already are running testing or have your system setup to run packages from multiple distributions, you should probably follow Akkana's instructions. I just looked at what is currently in the debian archives. # apt policy youtube-dl youtube-dl: Installed: 2020.09.14-1 Candidate: 2020.09.14-1 Version table: *** 2020.09.14-1 650 650 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2020.09.14-1~bpo10+1 100 100 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-backports/main amd64 Packages 2019.01.17-1.1 900 900 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages So it looks like using backports might also work. But I have never tried that. It does not make sense to me for my configuration. https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ Mars -- ============================================================= J. Marsden DeLapp, PE President DeLapp & Associates, Inc. dba DeLapp Engineering. Providing lighting and power planning, design and analysis services for commercial, industrial and large residential facilities. 1190 Harrison Road Ste 3a Santa Fe NM 87507 (505) 983-5557 https://DeLapp.com =============================================================